I stared at him. At the man who made me scream. At the man who made me feel. And for a second, I couldn’t speak. Couldn’t think. Couldn’t do anything but feel the words crawling through my skin and sinking into the place where all the pain had been living for the past hour.
Because that was it.
That was the truth.
He didn’t lie because he didn’t care.
He lied because he did.
Because he was f*****g terrified.
And that made me crazy.
That made me feral.
Because I knew what that felt like.
I knew what it felt like to be so scared of losing someone that you’d say anything to keep them close. I knew what it meant to need someone so bad it made you stupid, made you reckless, made you lie through your teeth just to keep the thing you couldn’t stand to lose.
I knew. Because I felt the sa
